Hi, my name is Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby.   I was born in Phillips in 1854.  My name when I was born was Cornelia Thurza Crosby.
     When I was young I worked at a bank in Farmington. I also was an articulate writer.    I am famous because I gained fame for being a fisherman and a game hunter. I held the first Maine Guide license issued. I had a column called  “Fly Rod’s” notebook. I had to think of a pen name so I thought of “Fly Rod” because in one of my columns I wrote about a lady catching a fish with a fly.  That’s how I got my name. 
     I was the first woman to legally shoot a caribou in Maine. I caught 200 trout in one day. In 1899 when I was 45 I injured my knee while getting off a train.  
    Here are some things that happened in Maine while I was alive.   In 1898, the Spanish-American war started after the battleship was blown up in Havana. During the years  1929 – 1939  “the Great Depression” hit lots of Maine farms and factories. The banks failed, too. 
     I died when I was 93 in a nursing home in Lewiston in 1946.

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Kara